In 2017, Steve Mitchell and Deonna Kelli Sayed produced Skin: Negotiating Race in the Contemporary South for YesWeekly, a four part interview series comprised of conversations with people from various races about growing up and living in the South
In 2016, Steve Mitchell and Deonna Kelli Sayed produced Out in the South for YesWeekly, a five part interview series comprised of conversation with LGBTQ people who had grown up in the South over five decades. The series won two awards from the NC Press Association and Best LGBTQ coverage from the Association for Alternative Media US/Canada.